Original Article
  • A Study on Foot Pressure by using an Insole Equipped with the Orthogonal Grid Sensor

  • Jeong-Hyeop Son*1, In-Jun Jung*1, Seung-Hwan Chang*†

  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University

  • 직교 그리드 센서가 삽입된 인솔을 이용한 족압분포 연구

  • 손정협*1 · 정인준*1 · 장승환*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Seung-Hwan Chang

  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University

  • E-mail: phigs4@cau.ac.kr